[PCW] Fuel economy, Chrysalis across the Atlantic

[Georgs Kolesnikovs]

>>If Dennis Raedeke is online, perhaps he could share data from his
>>long passages across the Pacific with Wild Wind IV, a close
>>sistership to Chrysalis.
>
>I have written before about our trip from New Zealand to Seattle, but will
>write again.  For the whole trip we got very close to 2 MPG @ 8 to 8.5 knots
>running one engine.

That works out to the same burn rate of 4 GPH (gallons per hour) as 
Chrysalis experienced.

It's great that we've been able to get a better understanding of what 
fuel consumption is in the real world of trans-oceanic passagemaking 
in power catamarans.

--Georgs
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Georgs Kolesnikovs
   Power Catamaran World
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